• <b>San Francisco's median rent price is $4,450, nearly three times the median rent in Houston, Texas.</b>• <b><br>Instead of hiring expensive local talent in the Bay Area, one Houston-based law firm flies its lawyers in on a private jet once a month to meet with clients.</b>• <b><br>The firm uses the jet — which costs $2,500</b> …

• <b>Apple is hiring staff away from Dialog Semiconductor, a British chip firm which supplies power management chips for the iPhone and iPad.</b>• <b><br>Dialog's shares crashed over the weekend after a report that Apple would bring some chip design capabilities in-house in 2018.</b>• <b><br>The situation bears resemblances to</b> …

In San Francisco, an influx of tech workers has driven up the cost of housing and pushed natives to the far reaches of the city. And in the remote waterfront neighborhood of Hunters Point, an entirely new community is rising on the site of a former nuclear testing facility.<p>Lennar Corp. — the …

Richard Kim, who shaped the BMW i3 and i8, is the latest executive to leave<p>Trouble continues to mount for electric car startup Faraday Future: Richard Kim, the VP of design and the man behind the look of the company’s flagship car, the FF91, has resigned. Kim tendered his resignation on Tuesday, …

It has to be done.<p>On Thursday night, <i>The Big Bang Theory</i>, easily one of the most-watched shows on television, introduced Bitcoin to millions of average people who might know a lot about their favourite sitcom but very little about digital currencies.<p>For the Bitcoin community, where people regularly …

Virtual reality (VR) is projected to become a $40 billion industry by 2020. Innovations in both VR hardware and software have made for interesting applications, especially in gaming and entertainment. In addition, new products by companies like Oculus and Sony are making VR headsets more accessible …

Bitcoin made cryptocurrency enthusiasts’ heads spin this week when its value first crossed $10,000 two days ago, and then surged past $11,000. But it also alarmingly dropped by more than $2,000 within a few short hours of crossing that milestone.<p>Perhaps you don’t really need to worry – at the time …

David Benady meets a young engineer who has discovered her passion in a futuristic field<p>Katie Winkle is studying for a PhD in assistive robotics, designing robotic systems for caring roles, such as looking after older people. She graduated from a four-year mechanical engineering degree at Bristol …

Once you understand Bitcoin it's hard to forget about it.<p>Cryptocurrency is a complicated business. There's the blockchain and the forks and the coin offerings and the changing prices. There are government policies and mining technologies, exchanges and Chinese dealers. Something happens almost …